Scoil na Socheolaíochta UCDUCD School of Sociology

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Theory-driven use of archive in food research

Professor Stephen Mennell

British Library

19 November 2012

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‘Das eliassche Methode’

• ‘Makrostrukturen durch die Untersuchung von Mikrostructuren sichtbar zu machen’

• = through investigating micro-structures to make macro-structures visible

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References

• Goldthorpe, John H., ‘The uses of history in sociology – a reply’, British Journal of Sociology 45: 1 (1994), pp. 55–77.

• Goldthorpe, John H., ‘The uses of history in sociology: reflections on some recent trends’, British Journal of Sociology 41: 2 (1991), pp. 211–30.

• Mann, Michael. ‘In praise of macro-sociology: a reply to Goldthorpe’, British Journal of Sociology 45: 1 (1994), pp. 37–54.

• Mennell, Stephen, ‘“Plagiarism” and “originality” – diffusionism in the study of the history of cookery’, Petits Propos Culinaires 68 (2001), pp. 29–38.

• Swaan, Abram de In Care of the State: Health Care, Education and Welfare in Europe and the USA in the Modern Era (Cambridge: Polity, 1988)